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FHS MTG 19 MAY 7PM THE GRAND, THE LEAS, FOLKESTONE

PLEASE DO COME TO THE GRAND HOTEL ON THE LEAS ON MONDAY MAY 19th AT 7PM.

Once again Folkestone's history is under threat as developers plan to demolish the Harbour Railway Station, the Station Master's House, the Signal Box and Viaduct in order to build a Marina and University. Save Folkestone Railway Group are seeking to retain all of this unique example of our engineering heritage.

For over 165 years, the railway and harbour has served many thousands of travellers both to and from the Continent, and millions of service personnel in two World Wars. It provided jobs for local people and could still do so. A fully working harbour and railway would definitely promote regeneration of the area.

COME ALONG TO THE GRAND, THE LEAS, FOLKESTONE on MAY 19th at 7PM and state your views. All Welcome. Don't miss the opportunity.

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Never mind the KML

All that talk of KML yesterday got me looking at my maps again, they've not worked for ages, not since I added more tagging to all my Folkestone venues... so, not actually using the new kml version of the data, rather old georss xml versions, but at least the map is all working again now.

KML

Created some kml files from my pub / restaurant data on Folkestone Gerald, part of my plan to clean up my maps and things, kml is a standard that's been adopted by google for google earth and maps and things, and is possibly better suited than my existing georss feeds. I say possibly, because at the moment I'm not sure these even work, and look, see the georss versions support tags and things. AND OBVIOUSLY, it's just XML, and what do you care about that? Not a great deal. You could plug them straight into google maps or something, but they're not a great thing in their own right, like any feeds, they're just snippets of information that will be used by some other application, not directly by you, but I thought I'd throw them out there. This is the sort of thing I'm doing, it's all of the format

http://www.folkestonegerald.com/v/ Place / thing you are looking for .kml

They might be a bit slow

Food in Folkestone
Pubs in Folkestone
Vegetarian food in Folkestone
Pubs with gardens in Folkestone
Food in Sandgate
Pubs in Sandgate
Vegetarian food in Sandgate
Pubs with gardens in Sandgate
Food in Hythe
Pubs in Hythe
Vegetarian food in Hythe
Pubs with gardens in Hythe
Food in Canterbury
Pubs in Canterbury
Vegetarian food in Canterbury
Pubs with gardens in Canterbury
Food in Dover
Pubs in Dover
Vegetarian food in Dover
Pubs with gardens in Dover
Food in Fareham
Pubs in Fareham
Vegetarian food in Fareham
Pubs with gardens in Fareham

So was that the summer then?

In the interest of being able to read back on this in years to come and reminisce about what was going on, I should have said something about the weather recently I think. But, I blinked, and it's gone now. Got a barbecue lined up for this Saturday, but I think that's going to be eaten indoors now. Hopefully today's rain is just a blip and a real summer will come back some time next month. A table tennis table appeared just outside my office window at some point while we were in Key West for staff to relieve tension on, but that's had to be hastily dragged under cover today when the rain started. We've not had any of the storms that were promised for the rest of the country yet though, have you?

Very busy with stuff at work right now, have been since we had this reshuffle a couple of weeks back really, lots of meetings and things, but just TONNES of work to do to. Have lots of interesting things that we want to do, but now the development team (all the teams in fact) have been split in two each team seems to have less than half the resources we had as a combined team. Maybe just an illusion though.

We are recruiting! If you are a development type in Kent, or are happy to work in Kent, please leave a message or drop me an email. We particularly want some PHP skills, but as long as you are professional we are flexible, there is more than one vacancy. A proper job ad will be going out soon but if you want to jump the queue get in touch.

betting shop / brothel are two different floors of the building

The ladies who work as prostitutes have been moved on now apparently, to the building next door, where it is all ladies who work as prostitutes.

RE: Popbitch is in good company..

What is a betting shop/brothel? Do you go there, place a bet, the "ladies who work as prostitutes" have a big pillow fight in their underwear, and whichever punter's "lady who works as a prostitute" wins gets to have a go?

Cheers will bear that in mind

Now I come to think of it I remember someone I used to work with being all excited about some trainers that should cost a grand or something... Have been taking into account other stuff people are selling and that, have not bid on anything yet.

Wedding video and new jeans

Had a slightly rum Saturday night out but then a lovely Sunday afternoon to follow. Felt a bit queasy on Saturday so although we went out to Folkestone in the day, and had lunch at The Whole World Cafe (felty queasy before we went there, certainly not their fault), and then out again in the evening to Hythe, I came home early and left Clare out with friends. Picked up a bit when I got home, and finally got all my wedding video DVD plans in place, foudn some software that will burn to DVD for free, without putting a cheeky watermark encouraging me to pay money. Just could not get DVDStyler working this time, so no menus or anything, but I think I know what I'm doing now.

Here's some video, a short snippet of wedding footage, that I was using to test the DVDness. Not sure it really gives much idea of how lovely everything was, but have a look anyway:

Sunday I was feeling much better again, we went out for the afternoon in Hythe. First the all new Red Lion - it really is nice now, but they were CLOSED on a hot Sunday afternoon. And they have a huge garden, madness. Next The Three Mariners, lovely again, bit quiet / local though maybe. Final stop The White Hart on the high street, sat in their courtyard garden, smashing, two thumbs up for them. Home in time to watch this week's Lost, seems to me to be all change again in their back story, hmm.

DB2 training for me yesterday and today, first bit of training I've done for years!

Oh, the new jeans; Clare was after some For All Mankind jeans in the americas; they're hundreds of pounds here and should be half price there. Key West is expensive, which mostly negated any savings. If she will take a chance on a pair of ebay, they're WELL CHEAP. Possibly a gamble, might end up with a fake pair, but we'll see. I've put the jeans over there in the side bar, check them out -->

No it's not trampy and dirty buying things like this second hand. We might even wash them before wearing them. Next stop some new(ish) underwear for me...
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RE: Thanks for clearing that up!

She wasn't actually working at the time. Unfortunately I know who it was and some background on it. It is a shame but suicide is indeed a very selfish act but then society might be to blame for causing some of the ills of this world. I am not going to put her name on here.

RE: Folkestone suicide tragedy

I can confirm that Rosie had just come from an interview in which her return to work part-time was discussed positively. She had been treated for depression and everything seemed to be going well. It is so sad that, just when life had begun to look rosy, Rosie took her own life. Who knows what goes on in a person's mind at a point like that ... I believe that reality for such a person suddenly becomes no more than the posters on the sides of the Undergound and one's sole destination seems to be at the end of the dark tunnel beyond the platform.

My feelings are with her family and with those people who had to witness and deal with her smashed body.

Some optimistic estimates in this online auction I feel

These all sound a bit high to me, found an auction of rock memorabilia:

Soundproofing from Abbey Road �850+, signed KISS album, �3-400. Madonna platinum album �500+, these things are so common, our old office was stuffed with them. Guess if you have a particularly good album it's interesting, or one that you worked on, but otherwise there's no way I'd buy one of these.

No I'm not just bitter because lots of people are seeing Madonna today in Maidstone , for free, lots of people from work too. Hope you had a great time if you were there. Bah.

Oof Frank Zappa's guitar, �70,000+... Happy bidding!
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Hibbett's Edinburgh festival show confirmed for The Medina

Meanwhile the PLANS for "My Exciting Life In ROCK", our Edinburgh Fringe Show, are moving along. I think I've pretty much worked out which songs and which stories will be featured, as well as how it's all going to hang together. I've not tried it out properly yet though!
If you fancy coming along, it'll be at the Medina, August 4th-9th - I'm hoping to do some previews beforehand too, but I'll let you know about them when I know myself!

The three rules of vegetarian food

From Neil, I hope he doesn't mind me reproducing this here, it's spot on. We were discussing pies:

A veggie one would be possible, were it not for the first of the "food
industry 3 laws of vegetarian food", i.e. "don't make it any fun", so unfortunately veggie pies have to be in a kind of tough brown pastry which is actually made from the bark of a particular species of pine.

The second law is of course "make it a bit more expensive than meaty food, even though there is less in it", and the third law is "even though the choice is limited, as soon as something good emerges and people like it, try to stop making it"

Whatever did happen to Linda McCartney Southern Fried Grills? Perhaps these were the elusive foodstuffs that were supposedly vegetarian but were really made out of meat?

Speaking of crazy urban whatnames, there's a rumour sweeping our office that a local business has been cloning people's bank cards, supposedly two people at work had this happen to them, and now everyone else who's visited the same business (which I won't name here) is panicking, waiting for the fake payments on their statements.

Our actual first day in Key West

I realise that my previous post about our first day in Key West a) didn't contain any info, b) had things from our second day on the map, and c) has slipped down the page and no-one will read it. So here at last is the first part of our journey. Clare did I miss anything?

So, back from Key West then and trying to write up all my thoughts from the position of a desk, an office, England, very far in space and mind from where we were. We travelled to Key West (Florida, USA) for Clare's bro Kevin's wedding to Guiselle, the wedding was on a Sunday, and we had a few days either side for a holiday. We settled on six nights instead of seven or more to save money, as we couldn't find a package (where two weeks can be the same sort of price as one), you never can find a bargain when you want one can you? I'm not much of a traveller these days, and generally like to come home after a week anyway, but we had a really great trip and I could have done with it lasting a bit longer.

The holiday started extra early for me, while Clare was off on the Wednesday, I had to be all packed Tuesday night, to take my bags into work, and head to Gatwick right after. A busy day at work and a hastily called 4pm meeting meant I just scraped out at half past, meeting Clare at Westenhanger where she even had a beer waiting for me, lovely! We were staying overnight at the Moat House, Gatwick, booked through work, and of course I HEARTILY RECOMMEND IT! We were intending to go for the on-airport Hilton but the savings were enormous on the one we picked, so that's that. Tea and a few pints of real ale in the nearby Ye Olde Six Bells were great, that's something we could not have walked to if we'd stayed on airport. I don't think I ever go near an airport unless I'm actually at an airport, so it's good to find there are real villages and things nearby, it's not just acres of car parks. Nice hotel, nice room, the bar was open, what else do you want from an airport stop? Our transfer the next morning was free, and while it could have been quicker (by not going via other hotels in the area) nothing to complain about at all there. We got to the airport, checked in, and went for a civilsed cooked breakfast, with no booze, lordy!

The flight there was uneventful. It wasn't comfortable or fun, I would not fly Delta again if there was another choice at about the same price, but we went for the cheapest deal we could find this time so we paid our money and we I took our choice. The plane didn't have seatback TV's, just little screens suspended every so often from the ceiling. We were too far away from these, and Clare could not hear anything through the supplied headphones, man was she furious! She didn't miss much though, daytime flight, shared TV, of course they're going to show only childrens films, pretty poor. I didn't bother with The Water Horse or some half cartoon fairy princess movie, but I did quite enjoy National Treasure: Book Of Secrets. I'd not seen the first one, but will now, it's The Goonies meets The Davinci Code, and I quite liked both of them. I don't think I slept on the flight over, I read a Lovejoy Paid and Loving Eyes (nice and light for packing purposes, and I've got two copies of it for some reason, so intended to leave it there) and ate my airline snacks; they remembered my vegan-ness. Almost no free booze though. Free soft drinks, with $5 upgrade to a cocktail if you wanted. A free glass of wine with our meal, and because I probably looked like a desperate wino, the stewardess gave me two, lovely. I prefer free drinks all the way though!

To increase the cheapness, we had to change planes in Atlanta, though you have to change somewhere to get to Key West. The rest of the family were flying to Miami and driving down from there, but we opted for the more awkward flight but more time in Key West. We had to reclaim our bags here, basically just moving them from one conveyor belt to another though, no security or anything. Then came the security... we shuffled round queues for a couple of hours I'm sure, this was the big immigration moment that you get every time you go to the US though. Atlanta airport is huge, we had a bit of a sprint round looking for food and beer, I heard there was a brew pub on site, but it was just a Sam Adams bar, not much cop. We settled on Sweet Georgia Brown instead, also not any good but we only had about an hour to kill, then on to our tiny little plane to take us the last eighty minutes or so to Key West. This plane was small, and a bit bumpy, but I think I'm getting better at flying, I hardly cried at all. There was a hen party in front of us, and some chap being mysterious about his bar, I think it was this one, trying to get the hen party along. No food on this flight, nor TV, nor any free booze, but before you know it we've landed in Key West.

Clare had joked that Key West airport would be one small shack with a man who'd have to stop selling his mangoes outside to come and do immigration and passports and things; not far off at all. As there are no external flights from Key West there's none of the delay and paperwork, the plane parks up next to the terminal building, you step inside, your bags come in, and you step out the other door to a waiting taxi. I didn't even have time to check out the mango stall. There's a special rate for taxis from the airport, and as we were heading from one end of the island to the other that's the maximum fare of $7.50 each. We ended up sharing a cab with two other people and dropping them off on the way, I think this fixed fare is quite common in the USA from airports. A quick peek at the hotel, drop the bags off, and out on the razzle dazzle!

First impressions of (my second visit to) Key West - it's pretty hot, and it's night time (about 9pm local time when we got there I think). It was the week of the Conch Republic independence celebrations when we arrived, so perhaps there were more people out and about, but to be honest there's always something going on. This was the 26th anniversary of Key West seceding from the rest of the union (for about one minute, after which they surrendered to the navy and then demanded one billion in aid). There were events planned for all over the weekend, starting with a big parade this day that we'd just missed, doh. The streets were still full of people though, which was to remain the case all week. We had a bit of a scoot around town, getting our bearings again, and went in Captain Tony's for a drink. Sloppy Joes' is probably the most famous bar in Key West, it was one of Hemingway's favourite hangouts; the name moved to a bigger premises on Duval Street at some point but Captain Tony's is the original spot. There was live music (there was live music in every bar now, not sure this was the case on our last visit, good place to go live if you play guitar I think), a big old tree in the middle of the bar, and hundreds of bras hanging from the ceiling. It's not that this was too much to take in, just that we'd been travelling a long time, were tired, and headed back to the hotel after this.

[map]2008-04-25[/map]

Hmm, no map action for the 24th actually. Onward and upward, more to write, coming soon!

RE: Folkestone suicide tragedy

Folkestone Herald has named the woman as Rosie Dunstall, she'd recently suffered from depression, and was reportedly at Wilkinsons discussing a possible return to work before the tragedy. Makes more sense than my previous imaginings about someone planning to end it all but wanting to get some work out of the way first.

Thanks for clearing that up!

Another STRANGE "fact" I heard from someone at work was that the lady in question jumped after she'd finished her shift in Wilkinsons... why would you not do it before?

Day two in Key West

A placeholder for write up and photomap and that.

[map]2008-04-26[/map]

See also Day one in Key West. Done some work on my GPS importing now, even locations in the Western hemisphere should work now! Explains what went wrong with my Fareham map...

Folkestone double death plunge smash horror tragedy!

Yoinks, yesterday someone chucked themselves off the roof of Bouverie Square in Folkestone, and today the end of our road was sealed off by police because of a "scene". Police were stopping anyone getting close to what had happened, so a) we had to walk home via a circuitous route, and b) no I didn't get any photos / videos / close up viewing details of what had gone on.

Actually wrote that yesterday and then Clare made me think about whether I should write about things like that or not. Of course I should, this is for me to remember where I was and what I was doing and things. Any local events are worth a mention. Perhaps making a horror death map tour of the town on google maps or something would be going to far, but it might be interesting to see local murder points, or the inevitable floral tributes. Look, what's likely to happen first, I write publish something insensitive and gory, or I just get too dull and other people stop reading?

I didn't go out of my way to find out anything about the Bouverie Square (newish town centre shopping complex, Asda, Starbucks, HMV, etc) suicide, I first overheard at work that something had happened "opposite SAGA". Although I was back in work, jetlagged and holiday-hungover, Clare had another day off and was spending part of it walking to Hythe, so right past SAGA HQ. Clare wasn't answering her phone, but she spotted it and called me back, she'd been in to town and heard all about the tragedy there from someone who worked in Asda.

Further details emerged on the way home, I had borrowed a car from work and gave someone else a lift back to Folkestone, he'd been on Facebook and the other gossip networks and heard from people who'd apparently been there, and there were seemingly plenty of witnesses, some of them holding up their camera phones as it all happened (although an apparent eye-witness has checked in to say this is NOT TRUE). So that's why I don't have any firm details, I'm not googling for it in case someone more awful than me has a YouTube clip or something.

Going to be a fairly lazy day today, hopefully I will get round to sorting my holiday photos and trying to remember some details of what we actually did while we were in Key West. Yesterday we had a bit of a day out - it's a bank holiday, so a free day, so let's do something different. We ended up in Ramsgate - it's rubbish, but the harbour side cafes were OK on such a nice day, and it does have a Pizza Express. We tried a few pubs, but could not find ANY local beer, how odd. So we headed back after lunch and jumped off the train at Deal briefly - much nicer there, went to the very cool The Bohemian pub / bar, and happened to be at the station at the same time as The Orient Express. Well, the English leg of it anyway. Lots of people suited and buoted on the platform, very odd.

We came home from Deal quite early just to stay in and catch up on Lost and House and loads of low quality quiz shows on BBC iPlayer.

And we're back from Key West

Got 550 pictures to filter and upload, and put on little maps and that. Had a great time, full report to follow. Been travelling for about 20 hours, just trying to stay awake until normal bedtime, then into work tomorrow.

Our first day in Key West:

[map]2008-04-25[/map]

Farewell then, John Price

John left our team on Friday, did they get him a brand new car as a leaving gift?

Are you sure Hazel didn't register in both your names?

I wouldn't think the BBC would spam out invitations for something like this. We both registered (in our own names) though I didn't go for the competition aspect of it, so I won't get some researcher from Radio One seeing if I'm fun enough (and young enough) to do a competition on air... If you do end up winning tickets sell them...

Apparently 10% of tickets will be allocated to "locals", so if there are aboout 35,000 to give away in total that leaves 3,500 reserved for Kent, or perhaps even just reserved for Maidstone.

Best chance of our lot is Dean, he works in Maidstone so he's given the office address, fingers crossed he gets tickets.

Not at all arsed about seeing any of the bands, but it's just because it's happening in Kent that I feel we ought to pop along. Hopefully going to get a look in at Zoo Thousand (fest happening right by where we got married) and the Mighty Boosh Festival, if it happens.

Ah, it wasn't made up Neil Young is playing in Kent too... at the Hop Farm, the same location as the supposed Mighty Boosh Festival.
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Radio 1 big weekend lineup

This is a free festival in Maidstone in a couple of weeks, you can register for tickets today, but please don't, it will decrease my chance of getting any:

Saturday 10 May Main Stage
Madonna, The Fratellis, Usher, Scouting For Girls, Duffy, The Feeling, Robyn, The Hoosiers

Sunday 11 May Main Stage
The Kooks, The Enemy, Nelly, Goldfrapp, The Pigeon Detectives, Newton Faulkner, OneRepublic, Adele

Not my dream lineupk, not a great lineup, but an undoubtedly big lineup, particularly at the top of Saturday there. I guess it'll be a very short PA type set rather than the full gig experience. Also guessing (as she's still snoozing on the train to work as I write this) that as we can only go to one day (if we are in the lucky 1% who win tickets) she'd like to see Madonna.

My first pop concert was Madonna, over twenty years ago...
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Naked art

Naked Art Studio are still selling their original art from the good town of Folkestone... check them out.

I create very affordable, modern & abstract works of original art and paint using a rich blend of colours, textures and metallics (hand-mixed because the 'off the shelf' metallics are too predictable!) I absolutely love the light-reflecting qualities of the metallic paints - constantly changing in different light sources.

ASUS EEE big size!

Slashdot has a link to the first full review of the big size ASUS EEE micro laptop. So check it out!

Despite the fact they make a pink one, I'm less convinced than I was before that this is the right laptop for (say) someone's mother. It might still be but I'd have to have a play on it. You'll get most out of this if you are already au fait with a home network and have shared storage and things like that.

Tried to post this yesterday but had weird internet issues at home.

RE: wg111 (wifi) + ubuntu (linux) still not playing nicely

Hi Paul
I came across this site as I was searching how to make my new WG111v3 usb adaptor work under mandriva 2008 (I'll try it on my ubuntu machine later) - that has ndiswrapper installed and, like yours, didn't work. Your posting gave me the clue as to where to look (as well as reading the ndiswrapper manpage), so if you, or anyone else is still having problems, this is how it is done.

The wg111v3 comes with a setup.exe file, rather than the raw inf and other files, so the trick is to extract the files that you need from it. I have wine installed so I simply ran it under wine and went back to harvest the necessary files - you might also use an extraction tool such as filejuicer to get at them, or even use setup on a windows machine!

You need
WG111v3.inf which is in .wine/c/windows/inf/
wg111v3.sys which is in .wine/c/windows/system32
I also included
wg111v3.cat which is in .wine/c/windows/inf/WG111v3/Vista64
but I don't know if you actually need it

the .wine file is usually in your home folder, c may also be called drive_c or fake_windows

Copy these files to a folder somewhere and use them to configure the ndiswrapper. The mandriva wireless configuration tool in the control centre worked fine after that (when I remembered to actually plug in the adaptor) and automatically installed the extra files needed for wpa encryption; I am sure the ubuntu tools will work equally well.

Vincent

Good to know

Now to pimp some Harry Clarke original artwork or something, get my commission up. What do you recommend, what is hot at ABE Books these days?

Thanks for keep coming back here btw, I've not had this level of service from an affilliate manager before, at least not since that time I sold �15,000 worth of Robbie Williams tickets in one month.

House hunt

Two houses today in Canterbury, different parts of town, but with things in common. For starters, both too expensive really at 250k each. If the market really is tumbling we might be able to make a cheeky offer on just about anything we see now though I suppose. Also, they were both currently let, and we'd be seeing them with the tenants in situ. Also, both sets of tenants were entirely unprepared for our visits; the first were hastily tidying up, the place was a proper studenty sprawl with bottles and things scattered everywhere, and also what appeared to be a rolled up ten dollar bill left on a mirror, probably some sort of crazy art installation. It was a nice interesting characterful house in a nice old part of town, three big bedrooms, two cellar rooms and two knocked through reception rooms with just the raw brickwork of the chimney left standing in the middle of the property. It needed decorating, but the thing that makes it no good for us is the kitchen, which was too small. If it wasn't at the top of our budget we could have thought about rearranging things, maybe moving the kitchen or extending a bit, but we'd have no money left over for that.

Property two within the city walls is in the ideal location for us, right by The Dolphin. The tenants this time were even less prepared for our visit, they didn't want to let the agent in, they heard nothing from their landlord. We offered to come back next week but in the end they were unhappy but convinced, and the viewing continued. Surprisingly large three bedroom property, all of the downstairs was one big open plan space including the kitchen. I liked this, but it might need some thought. What would it be like living in a house where you can't close the kitchen off from the living room? At a squeeze we might even fit the pool table in this one, if we lived all around it. No garden, and being where it is no parking, but it's on a quiet street so stopping outside for deliveries and removals wouldn't be a problem. There are residents parking spaces right next door, but we know from previous enquiries that there's a waiting list for a permit. There is a small patio out the back, with the river adjacent. It's very shallow at this point, not even really deep enough for the ducks and moorhens to swim in, and is not quite as lovely as it sounds, but I liked it. Clare is less convinced, and at this credit crunching stage in the national economy I don't think we're going to be taking any risks on a place we don't absolutely love. I wouldn't mind seeing this one again though.

Some quick stats, ONE HUNDRED PERCENT of todays properties were being offloaded by professional landlords. Possibly in a hurry. If that doesn't tell you the property market is plummetting I don't know what will.

Lunch was at Boho, my first time of eating there and it was lovely, I recommend it. Tea was at Escondido for the first time in ages. Nice, but as with the last several visits they got my order wrong. They recovered quickly, so unfortunately we had no reason to demand a discount. I think that place is a bit expensive now really, but it was full again, I guess there is very little competition in the area. As it was Jen's birthday, we went on for drinks in The Sandgate Hotel for a change, nice but didn't feel all that welcoming. We made our excuses and left before closing time, but the party continued back at Dean's house until 4am apparently.

Nice day today, got our shopping out of the way early so are having a lazy afternoon. Midsomer Murders and chilli later, GREAT!

Internet history

I made this Barfly page in 1998, and it's still there. I don't have access to that server or anything, I wonder if anyone else does? No idea who Moorhaven were or why they were singled out among all the fake Shag Frenzy dates. That was before I went on to work for Channelfly / Barfly. Fascinating.
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Glastonbury pictures

Thinking about Glastonbury, Mum asked at the weekend if we had any pictures of us there, bearing in mind we may never go again. And I thought LAWKS, no I don't! I found a few luckily, but they're rubbish, andn none that make it look like we're having a great time, none from the really sunny times in 1994 and 1995. Were you there with me? Do you have any pictures? Send them, please!

I think that's the Glastonbury of The Darkness and Radiohead (though why I'm remembering it that way as I'm sure we didn't watch much of Radiohead) which would make it 2003.

After a bit of research it seems that year REM and Suede also played, so not sure why I think of it as Radiohead's Glastonbury.

Quiet night in tonight, it's Jenny's birthday, so Clare's out with her and I am left in alone. We're all going out tonight for a meal, Escondido for the first time in ages, but tonight it's girls only. I will play on the computer, might try and work out some more of my gigography now I'm in the mood, and then watch some Spaced.

Glastonbury tickets back on sale?

How does this work then? Got this from seetickets.com, buying from ticketmaster would help me out, I didn't think Glastonbury tickets would be publicly available like this:

GLASTONBURY 2008
The biggest and best festival in the world is upon us and tickets are available now! We also have a full range of coach AND train packages on sale, you can even pick your times of departure from one of the many towns available all over the UK. Click below to buy your tickets.
http://www.seetickets.com/g2008/

**REGISTRATION FOR TICKETS HAS NOW RE-OPENED** So if you missed out the first time you can now register to get your hands on the hottest tickets around. Click below to register.
www.glastonburyregistration.co.uk

Also while I'm here, want to play at Radio One's big weekend in Maidstone?